Whatever Works Education
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With 27 years of experience teaching, tutoring, and creating custom math curriculum, I’ve worked in both traditional classrooms and Montessori school settings, guiding students from upper elementary through advanced high school math.
I hold a Master’s in Secondary Education with a focus on Mathematics, Cognition, and Motivation, as well as AMI Adolescent Certification. I’m a Certified Secondary Math Teacher and a Certified Montessori Generalist for Adolescents, blending the best of both structured and student-centered approaches.
My professional background includes extensive training in neurodivergent learning styles and classroom adaptations, along with expertise in project-based curriculum writing and teaching. Over the years, I’ve served as a Curriculum Writer, Director of Montessori Middle Schools, and Homeschool Parent Consultant, specializing in helping students succeed at every level — from catching up to moving ahead.
Every resource I create reflects this balance of rigor, flexibility, and personalization so every learner can find “whatever works” for them.
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Exponents and Order of Operations Digital Interactive Notebook and Activities
What is the fourth dimension? or the fifth? In my exponents lessons, I get asked this all the time. The very first page of this resource has a visual I use to explain why a zero exponent is 1, and how you can visualize dimensions beyond a cube. With four different activities, there's plenty of practice, including in Order of Operations problems and a super challenging puzzle. Enjoy! In this download you will receive:Teacher Guide with Answer KeysEditable Version of the original PPT so you can ad
4th - 7th
Basic Operations, Math, Order of Operations
Factors & Divisibility Interactive Journal
Factors puzzles and divisibility practice in one interactive journal. Students begin with an operations puzzle and continue through four activities on factors and divisibility of composite numbers. In this download you will receive:Master Version and Teacher Guide with Answer KeysEditable Version of the original PPT so you can add pages, add problems, or remove content.Student Version of the original PPT with JPEG backgrounds so that moving objects around is easy and user-friendlyStudents will l
4th - 7th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
Order of Operations Digital Interactive Notebook Distance Learning
Provide a variety of activities to practice basic order of operations skills with this interactive journal. Students warm-up with a basic operations activity and then progress through 4 slides worth of basic order of operations activities and practice In this download you will receive:Teacher Guide with Answer KeysEditable Version of the original PPT so you can add pages, add problems, or remove content.Student Version of the original PPT with JPEG backgrounds so that moving objects around is ea
3rd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Order of Operations
Subtracting Positive & Negative Numbers Digital Notebook
Subtracting Integers can be fun and interesting even during Distance Learning. This Interactive Journal shows students basic subtraction of negatives, teaches them about parenthesis and gives them plenty of colorful, mixed up practice. The resource begins with a link to my website where students can watch a video teaching them how to think about subtracting integers like vectors. If they haven’t thought about integers this way before you should either remove the page with the link OR have them
5th - 7th
Basic Operations, Math, Order of Operations
CCSS
6.NS.C.5
, 6.NS.C.6
, 6.NS.C.6a
+7
Also included in: Integer Operations Full Unit Bundle Distance Learning Google Slides
Adding Positive & Negative Numbers Digital Notebook
Adding Integers can be fun and interesting even during Distance Learning. This Interactive Journal takes students from the history of negative numbers by Applying Adding Negative numbers in a realistic way. Though we take them for granted today, negative numbers were both useful and controversial in history. The Story of Negative Numbers tells the history from around the world of how negative numbers were perceived, argued about, and used. This is the way I open my Integer Operations Unit tha
5th - 7th
Basic Operations, Math, Numbers
CCSS
6.NS.C.5
, 6.NS.C.6a
, 7.NS.A.1
+3
Also included in: Integer Operations Full Unit Bundle Distance Learning Google Slides
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Experience
With 27 years of experience teaching, tutoring, and creating custom math curriculum, I’ve worked in both traditional classrooms and Montessori school settings, guiding students from upper elementary through advanced high school math.
I hold a Master’s in Secondary Education with a focus on Mathematics, Cognition, and Motivation, as well as AMI Adolescent Certification. I’m a Certified Secondary Math Teacher and a Certified Montessori Generalist for Adolescents, blending the best of both structured and student-centered approaches.
My professional background includes extensive training in neurodivergent learning styles and classroom adaptations, along with expertise in project-based curriculum writing and teaching. Over the years, I’ve served as a Curriculum Writer, Director of Montessori Middle Schools, and Homeschool Parent Consultant, specializing in helping students succeed at every level — from catching up to moving ahead.
Every resource I create reflects this balance of rigor, flexibility, and personalization so every learner can find “whatever works” for them.
My own education history
Master's of Secondary Education with emphasis on Mathematics, Cognition, and Motivation.
Bachelor of Arts in Educational Psychology with a Minor in Research Statistics
AMI/NAMTA Montessori Adolescent Certification
Professional Development in Neurodivergent Learners, Project Based Learning,
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